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agent327 4 days ago

>most new drugs come out of the public higher education in the form of studies and papers

Citation needed. Solvaldi, the drug we are talking about, was developed by Pharmasset. I see no evidence of university ties, and I find it hard to believe that a university would let such a money maker slip out of their hands if they had any kind of claim to it.

Even at a mere $300 per pill, you are still looking at $25K for a single treatment, which is well above what most people can afford. So would excluding millions of people from treatment be acceptable if the pills were priced at ingredient cost?

As for the bacteriophages, it perfectly supports my point: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/9sxcko/was_t...

"However, just three years later Eliava and his wife were accused of fantastical crimes and murdered at the personal direction of Lavrentiy Beria, chief of the NKVD. After this d'Herelle was so terrified and disillusioned with the whole Soviet experiment that he never returned from a trip to France... ...Eliava had the misfortune to fall in love, and then sleep with, an opera singer that Beria was obsessed with. Though academic opinion suggests that Beria may have been simply demonstrating to the military and/or still influential Georgian Bolsheviks that even a Hero of Soviet Science was not safe from his machinations."

Communism at work, doing precisely what I told you it does. If the head of the CIA murders a random civilian, it is, thankfully, still a crime in your capitalist society.

And in opposition to your list of capitalist ills I will put the communist equivalents: no medicine, no food, and no products. And even then they managed ecological devastation, such as the lake Karachay area...